Church of the Small Things

The million little pieces that make a life aren't necessarily glamorous or far-reaching. But God uses some of the smallest, most ordinary acts of faithfulness....

Love it!

By
Tricia Tamminga
on
11-10-17

Look at You Now

My Journey from Shame to Strength

By:
Liz Pryor

Narrated by:
Liz Pryor

Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins

Unabridged

Overall

174

Performance

164

Story

164

In 1979 Liz Pryor is a 17-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through her senior year of high school, she discovers that she is pregnant....

Inspiring & heart wrenching

By
Neil Shook
on
07-10-16

A Million Little Ways

Uncover the Art You Were Made to Live

By:
Emily P. Freeman

Narrated by:
Emily P. Freeman

Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins

Unabridged

Overall

10

Performance

10

Story

10

A best-selling author and popular blogger offers an inspiring vision that art is what happens when we live like we are actually alive, blessing God and others in the process....

Scared Selfless

My Journey from Abuse and Madness to Surviving and Thriving

By:
Michelle Stevens

Narrated by:
Michelle Stevens

Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins

Unabridged

Overall

203

Performance

181

Story

183

Michelle Stevens has a photo of the exact moment her childhood was stolen from her: She's only eight years old, posing for her mother's boyfriend, Gary Lundquist....

Horrifically Needed (Some Stories Need To Be Told)

By
Virginia
on
03-30-17

Spilled Milk

Based on a True Story

By:
K. L. Randis

Narrated by:
K. L. Randis

Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins

Unabridged

Overall

425

Performance

395

Story

390

Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in her home....

Amazing, better than the read .

By
Mary T Buerkle
on
04-08-17

Of Mess and Moxie

Wrangling Delight out of This Wild and Glorious Life

By:
Jen Hatmaker

Narrated by:
Jen Hatmaker

Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins

Unabridged

Overall

1,000

Performance

899

Story

881

Jen Hatmaker believes backbone is the birthright of every woman. Women have been demonstrating resiliency and resolve since forever....

Christian Brene Brown

By
hbhighfi
on
09-04-17

Unanswered Cries

A True Story of Friends, Neighbors, and Murder in a Small Town

By:
Thomas French

Narrated by:
Mikael Naramore

Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins

Unabridged

Overall

11

Performance

10

Story

10

On a warm Florida evening, Karen Gregory saw a familiar face at her door. What the beautiful young woman could not know was that she was staring into the eyes of her killer....

Unanswered Cries

By
Amazon Customer
on
12-07-17

Trust No One

By:
Teresa Cooper

Narrated by:
Alicia Rose

Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins

Unabridged

Overall

14

Performance

12

Story

12

Thrust into state care at six months of age because of an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother, Teresa Cooper spent her childhood in a variety of children's homes....

One of the most heart wrenching books

By
Ruth
on
07-12-17

The Foundling

The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me

By:
Paul Joseph Fronczak,
Alex Tresniowski

Narrated by:
Kirby Heyborne

Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins

Unabridged

Overall

457

Performance

418

Story

422

The incredible and inspiring true story of Paul Fronczak, a man who recently discovered via a DNA test that he was not who he thought he was - and set out to solve two 50-year-old mysteries at once

Prepare yourself for a journey that will take you to shocking places!

By
OUChris
on
04-04-17

Never Unfriended

The Secret to Finding & Keeping Lasting Friendships

By:
Lisa Jo Baker

Narrated by:
Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins

Unabridged

Overall

40

Performance

35

Story

35

In a world where we can unfriend each other with the swipe of a finger, how do we find friendships that we can trust to last? Maybe by first becoming those kinds of lasting friends ourselves....

Life-changing

By
Beth Smith
on
06-03-17

Memoirs Aren't Fairytales

A Story of Addiction

By:
Marni Mann

Narrated by:
Arden Hammersmith

Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins

Unabridged

Overall

114

Performance

105

Story

103

Leaving behind a nightmarish college experience, 19-year-old Nicole and her best friend Eric escape their home of Bangor, Maine to start a new life in Boston....

Powerful

By
Sharey
on
06-15-17

The Undoing of Saint Silvanus

By:
Beth Moore

Narrated by:
Shannon McManus

Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins

Unabridged

Overall

974

Performance

888

Story

889

Only God knew why Jillian Slater agreed to return to New Orleans on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death. It's not like they were close. She hadn't seen him....

Gripping and Thrilling to the Very End

By
Hugo Reed
on
10-25-16

Etched in Sand

A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

By:
Regina Calcaterra

Narrated by:
Regina Calcaterra

Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

Overall

568

Performance

506

Story

506

In this story of perseverance in the face of adversity, Regina Calcaterra recounts her childhood in foster care and on the streets and how she and her savvy crew of homeless siblings managed to survive....

I love the sound of Regina's voice

By
Stefanie Jensen
on
05-30-14

Cultivate

A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

By:
Lara Casey

Narrated by:
Lara Casey

Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

Unabridged

Overall

72

Performance

65

Story

65

Written as part encouragement anthem and part practical guide, Cultivate offers wisdom from God's word alongside lessons Lara has learned in her garden....

So good.

By
Tess
on
10-24-17

Such Good Boys

The True Story of a Mother, Two Sons and a Horrifying Murder

By:
Tina Dirmann

Narrated by:
Gabra Zackman

Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins

Unabridged

Overall

61

Performance

52

Story

53

Raised in the suburb of Riverside, California, 20-year-old college student Jason Bautista endured for years his emotionally disturbed mother's verbal and psychological abuse....

Could have been much more

By
kelli mcgourty
on
10-25-16

Publisher's Summary

"I don't know how old I was the night the trailer burned down or if the rumor was true that Daddy was the one who set it on fire."

For a long time, Edie thought she had escaped. It started in an Appalachian trailer park, where a young girl dreamed of becoming a doctor. But every day Edie woke up to her reality: a poverty-stricken world full of alcohol and violence, where getting out seemed impossible. She taught herself to drive a stick shift truck at 12 years old so she could get her drunk daddy home from the bar. She spent Saturdays at Brushy Mountain prison visiting her incarcerated cousin. She watched adults eat while her stomach gnawed, and then there was the torching of the family trailer, where she dug through the ashes to try to salvage her most prized possession: her Tammy Wynette album. And at the center of it all was her charismatic daddy. She never knew when he would show up, but when he did he was usually drunk; she learned the hard way that she couldn't count on him to protect her. So she told herself it didn't matter. All she wanted was to make him proud.

Against all odds Edie "made doctor", achieving everything that had once seemed beyond her reach. Only it was too late, because her daddy died a year before she graduated medical school. She split the cost of his funeral with her sister. When her past finally caught up with her, it was all too much, so she did what her daddy would have done: She set it all on fire. It would take her whole life burning down once again for Edie to be finally able to face the truth about herself, her family, and her relationship with God.

Listeners of The Glass Castle will treasure this refreshing and raw redemption story, a memoir for anyone who has ever hungered for home, forgiveness, and the safe embrace of a father's love.

Story

book dragged in the middle

Would you try another book from Edie Wadsworth and/or Lisa Larson?

probably not

If you’ve listened to books by Edie Wadsworth before, how does this one compare?

n/a

Any additional comments?

The book started and ended well however, the middle seemed to drag on and on. Had I been reading this book and not listening to it, I would have stopped halfway through. The author went into great detail about minor stories (that truly didn't matter) and completely ignored the big events in her life (ie. 1st marriage, affair, etc.). I felt like I had missed the big parts of her life and parts of what should have been in her book. I barely even knew her first husbands name and didn't recognized it when she said it the first time I had to go back and try to figure it out. The ending was decent but didn't captivate me like I had hoped.

narrator trying too hard

Would you be willing to try another book from Edie Wadsworth? Why or why not?

possibly. lots felt very dramatic

Would you be willing to try another one of Lisa Larson’s performances?

no

Do you think All the Pretty Things needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

no

Any additional comments?

i love her blog, but this writing seemed overly dramatic - with phrases like " i had never felt this hopeless...." or " i felt like i was sinking to the bottom of the sea".<br/>her describing how the sun came through the trees at the age of 5 or 6? <br/>her story is definitely one of redemption and hope, just didn't enjoy the writing style - OR THE NARRATOR!

Wonderful story

Loved the depth of this story and the description provided throughout. Loved the way she recognized the love of her father although he let her down so many times. Then the way she acknowledged the truth of God's redemption in so many ways.